Random/Ramblings – Peeps Edition #6

This week’s blog is prompted by the ever entertaining and delightful AmyJean Barclay.

I’m to talk about what I see right now out of my window, and what I’d like to see.

I see there are still quite a few green leaves on the mulberry tree in the back yard. But I also see a lot of brown ones on the ground. The grass is dry and brown. A couple of the lawn chairs are still under the tree. Lia’s pool is empty and turned over by the shed. The pool toys are still piled on the work bench under the tree. The wheelbarrow by the left fence is filled with firewood.

Across the alley in back the grass is very dry. The leaves on the neighbor’s trees are turning brown. Along the right fence the neighbor’s oleanders are still very green. Very few blossoms left. Many years ago when they were in full bloom, I cut a huge bouquet of them where they dropped over on our side of the fence. I took them to the cemetery to put in the vase on my mom’s grave.

Now for what I’d like to see. Snow! Not immediately, of course. But I would just love to wake up some morning in winter and look at all the snow on the ground in the back yard. And then I’d run to the front room window and see the same. That was the first big disappointment when we moved from Kansas to California. No snow in the winter. Of course at that time we lived in southern California! When we moved “up north” to Chico, I thought for sure there would be snow at least for Christmas. Nope. And I don’t want a lot of snow. Just enough to maybe make a snowman or two.